12-letter words containing s, w, u
- anuszkiewicz — Richard Joseph, born 1930, U.S. op-art painter.
- auger shower — a shower of electrons, photons, etc. resulting from the collision of primary cosmic rays with atomic nuclei in the atmosphere
- autorickshaw — (in India) a light three-wheeled vehicle driven by a motorcycle engine
- bhubaneshwar — a state in E India. 60,136 sq. mi. (155,752 sq. km). Capital: Bhubaneshwar.
- biscuit ware — unglazed earthenware
- blue swimmer — an edible bluish Australian swimming crab, Portunus pelagicus
- blue-sky law — a state law regulating the trading of securities: intended to protect investors from fraud
- bow thruster — a propeller located in a ship's bow to provide added maneuverability, as when docking.
- braunschweig — Brunswick
- brush flower — a flower or inflorescence with numerous long stamens, usually pollinated by birds or bats
- bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
- cauliflowers — Plural form of cauliflower.
- circular saw — A circular saw is a round metal disk with a sharp edge which is used for cutting wood and other materials.
- crosscut saw — a saw for cutting timber across the grain
- crowdsourced — Obtained by crowdsourcing.
- dust wrapper — dust jacket (sense 1)
- forward push — A forward push is a feature of distillation columns (= tall vessels for distillation) in which zones that allow higher contact between substances are near the top of the column.
- galusha grow — Galusha Aaron [guh-loo-shuh] /gəˈlu ʃə/ (Show IPA), 1822–1907, U.S. political leader: Speaker of the House 1861–63.
- guest worker — a foreign worker permitted to work in a country, especially in Western Europe, on a temporary basis.
- gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
- house wizard — (Probably from ad-agency tradetalk, "house freak") A hacker occupying a technical-specialist, R&D, or systems position at a commercial shop. A really effective house wizard can have influence out of all proportion to his/her ostensible rank and still not have to wear a suit. Used especially of Unix wizards. The term "house guru" is equivalent.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- housewrecker — wrecker (def 4).
- hubble's law — the law that the velocity of recession of distant galaxies from our own is proportional to their distance from us.
- industrywide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
- just as well — fortunate
- low-pressure — having or involving a low or below-normal pressure, as steam or water.
- lower fungus — any of various fungi that do not produce well-organized fruiting bodies and primarily reproduce asexually, as the chytrids.
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
- meadow mouse — any of numerous short-tailed rodents of the genus Microtus and allied genera, chiefly of fields and meadows in the temperate Northern Hemisphere.
- medium-sweet — (esp of wines) fairly sweet
- motown-sound — Detroit, Michigan: a nickname.
- murphy's law — the facetious proposition that if something can go wrong, it will.
- mwambutsa iv — 1912–77, king of Burundi 1962–66.
- new business — New business is the number of new policies that are written by an insurance company in a particular period.
- new urbanism — an international movement concerned with tackling the problems associated with urban sprawl and car dependency
- nurserywoman — a woman who owns or operates a plant nursery.
- nurserywomen — Plural form of nurserywoman.
- outside work — work done off the premises of a business
- pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
- pastures new — If someone leaves for greener pastures, or in British English pastures new, they leave their job, their home, or the situation they are in for something they think will be much better.
- picture show — motion picture.
- power supply — power supply unit
- powerfulness — having or exerting great power or force.
- public works — government-funded construction
- punxsutawney — a town in central Pennsylvania: Groundhog Day celebration.
- push forward — keep advancing
- pussy willow — a small willow, Salix discolor, of eastern North America, having silky catkins.
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